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“People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.”
Source: An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern
“My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'”
“I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.”
“When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.”
Source: Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern
“Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.”
“I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.”
Source: A time of war, a time of peace
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
“Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'”
“No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.”
“I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.”
“Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.”
Source: The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition
“It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.”
“I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.”
Source: An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern
“I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.”
Source: McGovern: the man and his beliefs
“I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.”
“It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.”
“The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.”